Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-03-07
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of the Ale1a. 9AzErTs'l
WASHINGTON, D. c., March Z, 1887.

fsneo;al Correspondence of the Alexa. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON, D. c., March Z, 1887.
Postmaster General Villas being asked this
morning if there was not some mistahe aoou'
the statement recently made in thl5 corre'
spondence, on the authority OF ex'represent.
alive Gibson. OF West Virginia, TO the elect
hat ruIs was in operation in the
Posto(ice Department by which no ex-
Confederate could be promoted in that
department, replied that one part of it, that
stating that Mr.. Smith Yves a republican,
WAS incorrect as he IL democrat and was
appointed by himself, Villas. Regarding
the other part, he said he declined to talk,
the inference naturally being that it was
correct. And yet Mr.. Villas only achieved
his present position by means of the votes
of ex.Confederate5 and their sons. A rep
resentative and senator from Southern
States being subsequently Informed OF
what Mr.. Villas had said upon the subject,
the former, Georgian, said he hoped 1t
was not as bad as it appeared, the latter a
Kentuckian, said he was not at all sur
prised.
A senatorial iunketirg trip to Florida, and
thence to Cuba, has been arranged, but Mr..
Teller, one of the party, hearing that case
of yellow fever is reported at Havana, says
his trip will stop at Florida, and it is blgh-
" probable that others of the party Will fol-
low his example.
Mrs. Malone and her daughter lett here
Saturday for Petersburg but will return in
short time and start for California with
Senator and Mrs Stanford, who are to
make the trip in luxurious style. General
Malone is out of the city to day, but Will
return in g day or two, settle up his affairs
here and then go to Virginia and take
charge Of the next republican campaign in
that State.
A Virginia Congressman in the city to-day,
talking about MIR. Hopkins, member elect
from the Lyncaburg district in his State, said
MIR. Hopkins had no idea of being elected,
and that the whole cost of his canvass was
one dollar and a half. The congressman
referred 10 is republican, but has not much
confidence in the republicsnism of Mr.. Hop
kins.
No peope are mora entitled to the recrea-
lion Of the Congressional recess, or enjoy it
more than Mr.. Murphy, the chief of the etc
nographers of the Senate, and his corps OF
competent assistants, to two OF whom, Mr.
Henry J. Gensler and Mr.. Daniel 3. Lloyd,
most Of the regular newspaper correspond
! ents here are under special obligations for
constant fayors during the session.
The failure of the deficiency bill to pass
affects the Department OF Justice to the ex-
| tent Of nearly seven hundred thousand dol
lars, but for all that, it is said at the Depart.
ment that it can manage to worry along I'LL
the next session, though the U. S. marshals
will be necessarily crippled to some extent
ia the matter of jurymen's fees.
There is still some talI of an extra ses-
sion, but familiars at the White House
say the only possible reason that can induce
the President to call one would be the tinan-
cial trouble that may be caused by the i'm
mepse surplus that will accumulate in the
treasury and the stringency in money al.
fairs that may be created by the withdrawal
OF that sum from circulation, but that even
in hat event he will not call it before Octo.
Der.
Mr.. Willis, of Kentucky, who had the
river and harbor bill in charge, is still in the
city, and was to have had another interview
| with the President to-day on the subject OF
the latter's right TO sign that bill at any
time within ten days after its passage, of
which right bIr. Willis says he is assured
A good deal of pressure is being exerted to
! induce the President to exercise that right,
but it is not supposed he will do go. MIR.
Willis saws no body had an idea the Presi
dent would veto the bill until tho morning OF
the day of adjournment, aud that the fault
with the President ia that he is u stranger
to the members of his party in Congress.
On the night before adjournment all the
Virginia members OF the House and some
others united in an appeal TO the Speaker
for the recognition of some one 10 move the
passage of the bill for the monument 10
Mary, the mother OF Washington. at Fred
ercksburg Subsequently Mr.. O'Neill, of
Pennsylvania, did get the floor for that pur-
pose, but was shut of by MIR. Hatch, of Mis-
souri,, who wanted to call up his bill to Gre
ate department Of agriculture, which also
failed.
A gentleman, who is probably as well
aware of what goes on inside the White
House as any one outside Of it, says the
President is not influenced at all by his
Cabinet, but does what he chooses, ire
spective of their advice that in many cases
he goes directly at variance with their adj
vice, and seems to rely upon Col. Lamont
and some Northern influence for every
thing he does and that he is totally unac-
quainted with his party, and seems incapable
Of understanding its feeling and sentiment.
A Western democrat here to-day says the
President doesn't hesitate to express doubts
about the uncertainty of the next Presiden-
tial election, and of the especial uncertainty
of Indiana, Connecticut. California, -Vir-
ginia West Virginia and North Carolina.
And yet no does nothing to remove that I'm.
certainty.
The spring term of the U. s. Supreme Court
commenced to-day. The habcas corpus cases in
the Virginia coupon matter will be argued at this
term, but probably will not be reached before
Friday, the 18th. Mr.. Royal, General Bradley
T. Johnson and Gov. Chamberln, the counsel
for the b)ndholders, were present in court this
morning The State, it is understood, i'll these
cases viii! be represented only by Mr.. Ayers, At
torney General of Virginia.
Henry Ward Reecher.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, who has been
lying critically i'll since Friday from an at.